Editor’s note: Follow Olympics opening ceremony live updates. Mascots are synonymous with sports, and the Olympics, worldwide event that they are, prove no different, Indeed, they have a rich ...

A company selected to sell stuffed mascot dolls for the Tokyo Summer Games gave millions of yen to an acquaintance of a suspect in the widening Olympic bribery scandal, investigative sources said.

An Asiatic black bear named “Bandabi” and a white tiger named “Soohorang” were selected to represent the Paralympic and Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang. Both animals appear in South Korea’s ...